Word: gov
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mayors of large cities are generally for Humphrey, but most of them will have little voice in their delegations. The mayor of St. Louis has strongly endorsed HHH, but the undecided Missouri state committee has officially asked Gov. Warren E. Hearnes to tell its delegation what to do in Chicago. A party official in Ohio says that Humphrey's mayors will have "a negative influence in the caucuses" at the convention. Another top Democrat predicted that 90 per cent of Ohio's votes would go to Kennedy if he pledged to "cooperate" with party leaders on federal patronage...
...prospect of an unimpeded road to the nomination (see following story). McCarthyites invited Republican doubters to join their camp. The G.O.P.'s moderate wing drooped visibly. "Now we've had two ships shot out from under us," said New York's Senator Jacob Javits. Gov ernor Tom McCall of Oregon expressed "deep disappointment." In his state, Rocky backers had gathered 50,000 signatures of support in preparation for the May 28 primary, which would have been Rockefeller's most promising confrontation with Nixon. McCall had even cranked out press releases warmly praising the New Yorker...
...political weather vane for the national election, the Wisconsin primary--pioneered by Gov. Robert La-Follette in 1903 as the first in the nation--has failed to bend even to popular hurricanes. In 1932, Wisconsin Democrats went for Al Smith, the rest of the nation for Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1952, state Republicans chose Robert A. Taft, while everyone else liked Gen. Dwight Eisenhower...
...Republican write-in for Senator Eugene J. McCarthy came in third behind Rockefeller with about 3 per cent of the GOP vote. Gov. George Romney, who withdrew from the 1968 presidential sweepstakes two weeks ago, lagged in a poor fourth with about 2 per cent...
...proved in practice to be "inapplicable in every detail." He quickly dumped it. In 1943, having irritated just about everyone by his zealous performance, he was dumped himself. A year on FORTUNE followed?he credits Henry Luce with teaching him to write?and then it was back to the Gov ernment, first to gauge the effectiveness of U.S. strategic bombing in Germany and Japan, later to work as an adviser on economic policies in the occupied countries. Since 1949, he has been on and off at Harvard...